1 64 NEW ZEALAND GARDENING. 



Raoulia glabra and subcericea, handsome carpet plants, with 



lovely white flowers. These plants will probably be 



useful for lawns instead of grass. 

 Raoulia grandiflora, a fine rock plant. 



Senecio bellidioides, a herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, 

 Senecio Bidwillii, a shrub with fine wax-like foliage. 

 Senecio elaeagnifolius, a shrub with bright green foliage. 

 Senecio laxifolia, a dwarf flowering shrub, free grower. 

 Sophora or Edwardsia grandiflora, New Zealand Laburnum. 

 Veronica Bidwillii, Lyalli, linifolia, Lavaudiana and pingui- 



folia. These are all dwarf of habit, and are suitable 



for growing on rock-work. 



The lowland plants in the above list are easy to grow in any 

 garden soil, and when once established their growth is rapid. 

 The Cabbage Palm is easily raised from the seed, and plants 

 ight feet high can be grown in as many years. A fine 

 specimen in the Victoria Nursery, Christchurch, a foot 

 through in the stem and carrying eight heads, which have 

 broken again into sixteen crowns, has been grown from seed 

 in ten years. The tree is fifteen feet high, and the head 

 measures twenty-four feet in circumference. An avenue 

 of these Dracaenas planted twelve feet apart in deeply- 

 trenched soil would have a fine tropical appearance. 

 With the exception of the Pittosporums, very few of the 

 native trees and shrubs have been cultivated, but there are 

 few finer things for the back ground of a shrubbery than the 

 New Zealand Laburnum when covered with its large golden 

 flowers. The alpine trees Plagianthus betulinus and Lyalli 

 both do well on the plains, and being deciduous, if they were 

 largely used, they would add a new character to our landscape 

 in the Autumn. They grow rapidly in strong loams, and their 

 clusters of white flowers, like cherry blossoms, are very 

 charming. The very distinct character of Panax longissi- 

 mum renders it a suitable plant for gardens, and never fails 

 to attract the eye from its singular mode of growth. The 

 Olearias are all worth growing, being evergreen and free in 

 bloom. Olearia Haasti is very fragrant, whilst Olearia 

 ilicifolia, the New Zealand Holly, is a very desirable shrub. 

 Of the climbing plants we have several species of Clematis, 

 the Parsonsia and the Calystegia, an evergreen convolvulus, 

 which are worth a place in every garden. 



